Patacona beach
Urban stretch of golden sand and seaside promenade, reborn from a cleared industrial district.
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This guide to Patacona beach in Valencia starts on the sand itself and asks how much of it used to be factory floor, tracing this stretch back through the Vera and Palmaret industrial polygons that served the farming town of Alboraya. You'll hear how that inland town passed from King James the First of Aragon's grant to the Bishop of Huesca in 1238, through the king's own wife, to a lord who founded it as a lordship in 1331, long before tiger nuts and horchata defined it. The guide follows the coast from working shoreline to nineteen-nineties redevelopment, then out along the sand toward Malvarrosa and the pastel canal houses of Port Saplaya.
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